Our Lady of Mount Carmel

03/04/2026

21/04/2025

The British Province of Carmelites is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Pope Francis. We give thanks for his faithful witness to the Gospel, his tireless advocacy for the poor and marginalised, and his deep commitment to peace, dialogue, and care for creation. His papacy has been a profound source of inspiration and hope for the Church and the world.
We entrust him to the loving mercy of God, and we pray that he may now rest in the peace of Christ.

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21/04/2025

RIP

Obituary of Pope Francis, the 265th successor of Saint Peter, by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.

01/10/2024

https://www.ocarm.org/en/item/219-st-therese-of-the-child-jesus-ocd-virgin-and-doctor-of-the-church

1 October Feast Saint Thérèse was born at Alençon in France on 2nd January 1873. Her parents were Louis Martin and Zélie Guérin. After the death of her mother on 28th August 1877, Thérèse and her family moved to Lisieux.    1 October Feast Saint Thérèse was born at Alençon in Fra...

14/06/2024

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I begin by wishing you a happy Father’s Day :) Thinking about fathers, their influence on us, invites to think about our heavenly Father, the one with whom Jesus was so intimate. Jesus’s relationship with his Father was such that he needed frequent long periods of time spent alone with God, Abba...

14/06/2024

Today the Carmelite Family remembers the prophet Elisha

14 June Memorial "Elisha came to Elijah, who threw his cloak over him and he, abandoned the oxen, followed Elijah and became his servant" (1 K 19, 19. 21). 14 June Memorial "Elisha came to Elijah, who threw his cloak over him and he, abandoned the oxen, followed Elijah and became his ser...

19/03/2024

https://www.ocarm.org/en/item/6316-st-joseph-a-saint-for-our-time

In a lovely little booklet on St Joseph, Cardinal Suenens wrote: “It has been said that the worst thing we can do to the saints is to put them on pedestals. In Joseph’s case, we might criticise not only the pedestal, but also the image of him with which we are all too often presented.”[1] ...